When A Nation Dishonors God- Part#2

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This is the Truth Network. This is part two of a special two-part episode. Do you feel like you're on a religious treadmill. Do you feel like Christianity is just a system of rules and regulations, I can do this but I can't do that. Do you feel like your efforts to reach God. Find God, and please God.

If you do you feel like your faith is dead or alive today.

Pastor Russ Andrews will walk us through Scripture to answer these questions join us on finding purpose, glorifying God by helping men find their purpose for living. For more information and to connect with Russ Andrews and finding purpose could visit us online@findingpurpose.net or connect with us on Facebook. Now let's listen to Russ Andrews as he teaches us how to be a Christian without being religious, still watching still measuring sin in Matthew 24 versus 37 through 39 Jesus says, as it was in the days of Noah celebrated the coming of the Son of Man for the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah and the ark, and I knew nothing about what would happen to the flood came and took them all away. A flood was waiting outside the city walls of Babylon, and that flood was the Medo Persian army is the reverie of the party climaxed.

Belshazzar had a thoughtless bring in the gold and silver goblets from the temple of the Jews and drinking them, and that's what I did and listen through this I know he was doing he was declaring that the gods of Babylon were greater in the God of the Jews as they dry. They mock God, and they ridiculed the Lord of heaven and they hail the gods made with hands of God will not be mocked. Glacier 67 says do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows so out of the darkness of the night, the hand of God appeared and wrote for words in the wall. Many, many technical parson. Belshazzar was terrified. His face turned pale. He did what all unbelievers day, he called for worldly man to help him with a spiritual problem. The lesson if you have a spiritual problem do not go to someone who is not indwelt by the Holy Spirit for any counsel or advice. Psychology is the study of the so who created the cell God. If you choose, go to a psychiatrist or counselor which is fine. Make sure they know Jesus so he can give you counsel from God's word that will nourish your soul the wisdom of the world is passing away to these wise men came in and guess what, they couldn't answer the video link does not solve the problem was that they were not indwelt by the Spirit of God like Daniel was first rate is 2/14. It tells us that the man without the spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God for their foolishness to him and he cannot understand them was that his request spiritual discernment to see that these so-called wise men had no answers. The Queen remembered a wise man for the past so she told the king about Daniel and Daniel this time was about eight years old. That means if you voice your social so Daniel was was called in and the king praised him and offered him REWARDS but you know what Daniel had no interest in the things of this world. What about you at some point listen this maybe the most important thing is that you today Mrs. world grows darker and darker and your friends realize that some point they have no answers.

They may turn to you. You be like Daniel, you speak the truth boldly, but in love you ready for that as people looking for answers.

How do I go to Panera bread every morning.

This is one man there who sinus 25 years old without a John is an alcoholic. He's looking for answers there everywhere you go first Peter 315 says always be prepared to give an answer for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect Daniel a lot of the king of the of the time. His grandfather this by the way sometimes.

Also, the following is really an ancestor, so there was probably somebody in between Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar. So the key mechanism was probably his grandfather.

The wife he reminds Bill Shatzer.

Nothing he still trying to reach Belshazzar with the truth.

Just like Jesus did with the Pharisees, he's reminded him of his grandfather and having God removed him from the throne until he acknowledged God as the sovereign ruler of the universe and these are the Belshazzar, but you did not honor the one who holes in your hands, your life definitely sent the Hannah wrote these four strange words, many, many technical parson in his what is Laura's main one more time many means numbered your days have been number to come to an end. Technical means weighing your life's work is been weighed in the balance and found lacking in parson means divided your kingdom has been taken from you and given to the Legion Persians want to emphasize in his words. These are the very worst that a nonbeliever will hear when I stand at the great white throne judgment to be condemned, numbered their days for the number to come to an end tackled their life's work will be weighed in the balance and found lacking and then parson divided separated doubly separated from the God who loves them and from heaven and from joint and from please for ever. I think sometimes we just take on the back talking to.

May we take our salvation. So for granted that we have eternal life that we don't really care as much wishing for those who lost guilty as charged him in the ministry history informs us listed that very night Darius under the key under the authority of King Cyrus diverted the Euphrates River which ran on the walls into the city say became a dry riverbed in the Medo Persian. Melissa just walked in under the city gate and kill Belshazzar in the Babylonian empire came to an end.

Justice was prophesied in Daniel chapter 2.

By the way, did you get everything that happened right here to Belshazzar on that very night was prophesied 100 for 50 years earlier. Isaiah Isaiah live around doing the math right around 650 to 700 BC and this happened around 520 to 550 BC so hundred 50 years had passed in his what God told is wonderful.

Great profit. Isaiah in chapter 13 of Isaiah tells Isaiah. Isaiah see I will stir up against them, babbling the main synagogue named the very Army babbling the jewel kingdoms the glory of the Babylonians.

Pride will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah if I wanted nothing.

Isaiah chapter 45 God told him who the ruler day. This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus is right here not take hold of to subdue nations before him, and district teams of that of their armor. Do not marvel at God's word is true God. Race of King Cyrus to be his instrument of judgment is auto brought the Babylonian empire to anyone. Why did this happen because King Belshazzar's article, Belshazzar crossed the boundary line between God's patience and his wrath when he first surrendered to the idea of exalting the gods of Babylon while insulting the living God of Israel and God not be mocked. You have to wonder folks.

If America has a cross that line already EE I have to wonder, when I look at it was taking place in our country. If God's patience has already run out with us. Just this past month during the whole month of June.

Our nation celebrated LGBT Q movement called calling it pride month. My bum birthday month by the way, is what you think about what symbolizes movement hijacked the rainbow you with a rainbow symbolic of consecration mercy right of the flood to wipe out every living creature on the face of the planet with the exception of the animals of all the art and in Noah's family. God made a promise to know what this always mercy in the midst of God's wrath.

Habakkuk 32 always mercy and Mr. God wrath you do not lose hope this morning of July the way this is referred to as the Noack covenant in the Old Testament you have the following covenants which are critical to understand God's redemptive plan for the hiss of the world you have the Noack covenant with Abraham it covenant, the Mosaic covenant, the Davidic covenant and the new covenant there study the Genesis chapter 9 and God said again he speaking to Noah, this is a sign of the covenant I'm making between me and you and every living creature with you a covenant for all generations to come. I've set my rainbow in the clouds and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds dosing one recently. I so wanted Isaiah whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind, the earth, so God said to Noah, this is the sign of the covenant established between the and all life on earth believe we taken that incredible sign hijacked it, turned it upside down and were mocking God. Every time we raise a rainbow over a J parade. By the way, Mitch and homosexuality and abortion.

I'm not picking up beside the sands also to send the will not have an adult through parades would not have an other counsel parades unaware of the reason that ministers like me focus on abortion and homosexuality is because been thrust in our face by the media.

So we have to address and do not try to guess in my office ability to lease by centuries and a born again is not the unpardonable sin. The only unpardonable sin is unbelief. On June 25. City celebrate this movement with a parade, just like the party. Belshazzar had they called it Raleigh pride out day. Some of the sponsor will weightman Red Hat Wells Fargo Duke energy UNC help PNC Bank Advance Auto Parts Blue Cross Blue Shield ABC Channel 11, and the list goes on and on and on. I didn't see the church sponsoring this, but I know that there were some churches participating in the southern on Facebook. Although the Bible God says he hates the shedding of innocent blood. Proverbs 6 1670 says there are six things that the Lord hates, that's a strong word.

Seven things that are detestable to him. Howdy eyes, what is that product from the Babylonians, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood that that phrase, hands that shed innocent blood is mentioned several times in the Old Testament were the most egregious sins committed by the Amorites and even the Israelites was child sacrifice. Can you think of anything worse than taking a little child in place that only an altar of iron. This been heated up sacrifice into a false God. We think abortionists were sacrificed over 60 million babies in this country alone, to the God of convenience, primarily God says he hates the shedding of innocent blood in lesson we can expect God to just turn his back on activities that he declares his word to be a greater sense. Otherwise, he would have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah to his the question. This will be in with okay what is happened to our nation initiative began so well as our history books are really being rewritten.

We need us Christian parents to remember true history and we need to teach it to our children and I don't have a lot of time to share with your Holland advance but I'm sure just a couple of events and not enough formation as a nation that show us how we began in Gary Thomas book America America's Christian heritage. He writes on December 22, 1620. The Puritans landed from the Mayflower and plan their feet on the rock of Plymouth Windows Plymouth Rock and begin a new era in the history of the world. Their first act. After Lenny was to kneel down and offer their thanksgiving to God and by solemn act of prayer in the name and for the sake of Christ. To take possession of the continent. Thus, they repeated the Christian consecration which Columbus more than a century before they give into the New World and so twice in the most formal and solemn manner without continent devoted to Christ and Christian civilization. Noah Webster, who lived from 1758, 1843, was an American textbook pioneer English language spelling reform of political writer, editor and author. He had been called the father of American scholarship and education is also a member of the Connecticut house of representatives and he writes the list of this quote all the colonies educated of the genius of Christianity and indoctrinated into the knowledge of the principles of just civil governments laid the basis of the civil system on the Bible and made its truths. The cornerstone of all their institutions. The fundamental doctrine of the man who planted each colony was that the legislation of the Bible must be supreme and universal. They rejected as heretical. The idea that civil governments could be rightly instituted or wisely administered without Christianity. What happened to our nation. If ever the new number number. I would like to copy a replica of the one that was used in our nation. It was first introduced in 19 skating 1690 by Benjamin Harris. It was the first textbook printed in America in 1777 and for the first 100 years after its introduction.

This was the beginning textbook that all of our students will be intolerant.

United told alphabet a try to near and Adam's sin. We send all the heaven to find the Bible mind see Christ crucified sinners died D daily. She drowned the earth around admission that as I thought about judgment by Plan of salvation and catechisms that they tell the kids songs right here now into the first students to our great great great great great grandchildren. Lawrence is about the Bible. They also prayed in school up until I was in the third grade which was 1962 when they removed prayer from skill and begin to remove God from the public arena and then we would strip away the 10 Commandments and every Bible verse and all the lives in Washington DC.

If we could one last example, one of our more liberal Supreme Court Chief Justice is Earl Warren. During interview in 1954.

Time magazine said this quote.

This is 1954, the euro born. I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the good book in the spirit of the Savior had been from the beginning of jotting geniuses. Probably the entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the Bible and their belief and it. I like to believe we are living today in the spirit of the Christian religion is 1954 listener.

This also like to believe that as long as we do so no great harm can come to our country as long as we decide. Probably the founding forefathers, Noah Webster, Earl Warren would weep face our nation today.

I believe God is waiting. So what happened to us the same thing is happened in other every other nation is the world when you turn away from God.

Romans one tells exact what happened now Marie just a few verses from Romans one.

Begin with verse 2200 and noticed three times in here it says God gave them over three times the first time God gives us over his two natural sin.

The second time the desire is to unnatural sin in the third time pretty much when you reach the bottom of the barrel. I dig over to a depraved mind. That's where America yes we have depraved mind, a depraved mind is wanted it there can no longer distinguish between right and wrong. Verse 22.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claim to be wise, they became fools exchange the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. Exchange the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the creator who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lust. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion is not my words is a God's words.

Furthermore, since they do not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he get it over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity for full of envy, murder, destroy deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderous, God haters, insulin, arrogant and boastful. They invent ways of doing evil they disobey their parents. They are senseless faintness partners ruthless is the one against me for 30 to although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. In other words, just like a Hollywood. They celebrate sin, not just remember that someone tell Sharon this book, the day after, I believe, wrote the row the way decisions are first handed down. They were interviewing this woman who said she was Jewish. That having their what you said. I'm Jewish.

She was nine months pregnant.

She had two children run over here and she had her shirt pulled up to show her extended stomach and she had these words written on it. This is not human, yet she said those two children. Human. This was not not tell you this from the bottom my heart. I enjoy giving that message and you probably enjoy listening to the truth sometime this painful and you will have pain in our hearts for the world would blot. I wish I could've come in here and preach the message about the grace of God is I want.

It is God's grace is still there. No one was gracious to Americans were still living in them is the door. Heaven is still open. The cross is still standing there is a an escape from his coming wrath seven*you care about the world around you. I know you do, you would be if you didn't, so we're supposed to got to be salt and light. So how should we live in a world is now babbling, but we need to live just the way Daniel did.

He is a shining example. I wish I could preach next Sunday and I will talk about how to be a Daniel in today's culture.

Let me just give you your outline there. Is there something for I will have another one you thought about this one. Even though the book of Daniel doesn't really talk. I don't know that it talks about repentance anybody like Daniel would understand this truth. I believer should live his life in a constant state of repentance.

Why is we keep on sinning, and God is faithful and just and he will forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness repent.

So repentance begins with the church if we want to see God heal our land. We have to repent first writing here and then hopefully God will bring the nation to repentance and then also Daniel prayed three times a day. That's how he ended up in the lines in Thessalonica found against him said he would not disobey his God was God with them in the last in to be with us in the loggia number three got Daniel study God's word.

Would you be students of God's word. If you don't love Rena Escott to give your love for is a discipline. Daniel lived a life of obedience after seven a look back at my life. I have some regrets have achieved some regrets. Guess what become a Daniel was never the rusty life. That's what I want to be. Finally Daniel Daniel Silva truth is spoken fearlessly. We need to be prepared to speak truth into a culture that is lost all concept of real truth which is God's truth close this one verse.

This verse expresses my heart this morning to all of you, Judy, whose half-brother, brother Jesus. He writes this in verse three. Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to speak to you this morning about the salvation we share, after I had the urge to write and urge you to contend for the faith.

It was wonderful and trusted to the saints to many of our founding fathers. By the way that war that work in 10 minutes to struggle like an athlete trying to win in the Olympic Games which were to contend for the truth. People and is a struggle.

The world is evil times waxing light, ready to be sober and keep vigil because the judges at the gate. The spry family father, thank you for this day.

Lori measured a very difficult message. I think you get that you gave me the strength to give it nephrogenic phone that she would take this message and that you would poured into our minds and hearts and change us.

I think the church is to be the be waking up to the reality of the world around us. That is falling apart at the seams and we need to do what they are not with our heads hung low with the hits Hill high, which we have the hope we have the hope of you living in us that we have. What a great hope you are, we can share the site with a lost world being a Christian is not about being religious but about having the dynamic alive relationship with Jesus Christ you been listening to finding purpose with pastor Russ Sanders glorify God by helping men and their purpose for living. You can discover more about finding your purpose in life by checking out the resources@writingpurpose.net will connect to finding purpose on Facebook pastor Russ would also like to extend a special invitation for you to join him in over 300 other local men to study God's word together every Tuesday night at 7 PM in downtown Raleigh.

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